Randall Dillard, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office, said all voter registrations must, by law, have a signature. He said his office will contact the DPS to try to make the process easier.

“If there’s one person that’s confused, that’s too many, so we’ll continue to work with DPS,” he said.

Dennis McClure, 54, of Keller, said he had the same problem Baker did.

He said he clicked “yes” to register to vote when he was changing his driver’s license a few months ago, but did not remember seeing anything about printing something out to sign.

So McClure was given a provisional ballot when he went to cast an early vote on Friday.

“The guy just told me ... it’s possible that my vote could be challenged and not allowed,” he said.

Jody Lindstrom, 33, of Keller, who moved to Tarrant County from Alaska, said she registered to vote in person at a county subcourthouse when she applied for a new driver’s license in early September.

She never got a voter registration card, even though her husband got one using the same process.

Lindstrom, also a McCain supporter, looked on a government Web site and found she was not registered. She said talking to election workers on the phone just confirmed that she was not registered.

“They told me I wasn’t going to be allowed to (vote) because it was past the date” to register, she said. “They said I could go and vote, but that it would not count.”